So true about the communal aspect of making a new theatre work. I find it so strange that people still (mostly) write plays alone in their study and then hand it over to a director, as if the writing were suddenly somehow complete. For me, when you can find that balance between the loneliness of writing and the chaos of devising with a bunch of people, that's where the magic is.
Yes! It's so interesting isn't it? There's part of me that thinks that if I were a serious playwright it might be quite liberating to hand something over, walk away and come back on the first stagger through (!) but on the other hand as you say, nothing beats the magic of collaboration.
So true about the communal aspect of making a new theatre work. I find it so strange that people still (mostly) write plays alone in their study and then hand it over to a director, as if the writing were suddenly somehow complete. For me, when you can find that balance between the loneliness of writing and the chaos of devising with a bunch of people, that's where the magic is.
Yes! It's so interesting isn't it? There's part of me that thinks that if I were a serious playwright it might be quite liberating to hand something over, walk away and come back on the first stagger through (!) but on the other hand as you say, nothing beats the magic of collaboration.
Yes maybe some playwrights are just wired that way